History

Premiers of Alberta

A chronological list of Alberta’s premiers from Confederation in 1905 to the present day.

Number	Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office	Political party
1	Sir Frederick W. A. G. Haultain (1857–1942)	1897-1905 (Premier of the North-West Territories)	Independent
2	Alexander Cameron Rutherford (1857–1941)	1905-1910	Liberal
3	Arthur Sifton (1856–1921)	1910-1917	Liberal
4	Charles Stewart (1868–1946)	1917-1921	Liberal
5	Herbert Greenfield (1869–1949)	1921-1925	United Farmers
6	John Edward Brownlee (1883–1961)	1925-1934	United Farmers
7	Richard Gavin Reid (1879–1980)	1934-1935	United Farmers
8	William Aberhart (1878–1943)	1935-1943	Social Credit Party
9	Ernest Manning (1908–1996)	1943-1968	Social Credit Party
10	Harry Strom (1914–1984)	1968-1971	Social Credit Party
11	Peter Lougheed (1928–2012)	1971-1985	Progressive Conservative Association
12	Don Getty (1933–2016)	1985-1992	Progressive Conservative Association
13	Ralph Klein (1942–2013)	1992-2006	Progressive Conservative Association
14	Ed Stelmach (b. 1951)	2006-2011	Progressive Conservative Association
15	Alison Redford (b. 1965)	2011-2014	Progressive Conservative Association
16	Dave Hancock (b. 1955)	2014-2014	Progressive Conservative Association
17	Jim Prentice (1956–2016)	2014-2015	Progressive Conservative Association
18	Rachel Notley (b. 1964)	2015 – 2019	New Democratic Party
19	Jason Kenney (b. 1968)	2019 – 2022	United Conservative Party
20	Danielle Smith (b. 1971)	2022 – present	United Conservative Party